Saint-Barnabé, Quebec

Not to be confused with the municipality of Saint-Barnabé-Sud in Montérégie, which was formerly known as the parish municipality of Saint-Barnabé until October 24, 1992.

Saint-Barnabé
Parish municipality
Location within Maskinongé RCM.
Saint-Barnabé Location in central Quebec.
Coordinates: 46°24′N 72°53′W[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Mauricie
RCM	Maskinongé
Constituted	July 1, 1855
Government [2]
• Mayor	Michel Lemay
• Federal riding	Berthier—Maskinongé
• Prov. riding	Maskinongé
Area [2][3]
• Total	59.20 km^2 (22.86 sq mi)
• Land	59.07 km^2 (22.81 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[3]
• Total	1,179
• Density	20.0/km^2 (52/sq mi)
• Pop 2006-2011	2.3%
• Dwellings	549
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Postal code(s)	G0X 2K0
Area code	819
Highways	R-153 R-351

Saint-Barnabé (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ baʁnabe]), also known as Saint-Barnabé-Nord, is a parish municipality in the Mauricie region of the province of Quebec in Canada.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Barnabé had a population of 1,186 living in 535 of its 562 total private dwellings, a change of -0.8% from its 2016 population of 1,196. With a land area of 58.94 km^2 (22.76 sq mi), it had a population density of 20.1/km^2 (52.1/sq mi) in 2021.[4]

Government

The mayor is the municipality's highest elected official. Saint-Barnabé has had fifty mayors.[5]

#	Mayor	Took office	Left office
1	Antoine Bournival	1855	1858
2	Raphaël Bourassa	1858	1860
3	Alexis Gélinas	1860	1860
1	Antoine Bournival	1860	1862
4	Thomas Gélinas	1862	1866
5	Antoine Gauthier	1866	1872
6	Jean-Baptiste Lemaître	1872	1874
7	Dr Félix Dydime Fontaine	1874	1877
8	Joseph Bellemare	1877	1880
9	Onésime Lesieur	1880	1881
8	Joseph Bellemare	1881	1982
10	Arthur Sévère Bald	1882	1888
11	Jules Lamy	1888	1890
12	Octave Gélinas	1890	1892
13	François Gélinas	1892	1893
14	Évariste L. Désaulniers	1893	1894
15	Louis Dollard Héroux	1894	1895
16	Hormidas Garceau	1895	1897
17	Maxime Grenier	1897	1898
18	Dr Élisée Bellemare	1898	1900
19	Adolphe Lamy	1900	1901
20	Narcisse Gélinas	1901	1902
19	Adolphe Lamy	1902	1903
21	Pierre Gélinas	1903	1905
22	Jules Lamy	1903	1905
23	Adélard Giguère	1905	1907
24	Joseph de Charette [6]	1907	1910
25	Amédée Boucher	1910	1912
26	Sinai Bournival	1912	1913
27	Cléophas Bussière	1913	1915
28	Adrien Gélinas	1915	1916
29	Évariste Gélinas	1916	1917
30	Charles Marcouiller	1917	1920
31	Odzaca Gélinas	1920	1921
29	Évariste Gélinas	1921	1923
32	Alexandre Désaulniers	1923	1925
33	Nestor Bourassa	1925	1929
34	Raoul Bellemare	1929	1931
35	Wilfrid Boucher	1931	1933
36	Sévère J. Lamy	1933	1935
31	Odzaca Gélinas	1935	1936
37	Caméric Lemay	1936	1937
38	Oscar Lemay	1937	1939
39	Origène Bourassa	1939	1943
40	Albé Diamond	1943	1945
41	Gérard Gélinas	1945	1957
42	Bérard Pellerin	1957	1963
43	Robert Lemay	1963	1969
44	Nathan Diamond	1969	1981
45	René Gélinas	1981	1990
46	Jean-Guy Gélinas	1990	1994
47	Nicole D. Gélinas	1994	1995
48	Julien Plouffe	1995	2002
49	Germain Lacombe	2002	2005
50	Michel Lemay	2005	2009
51	René Bourassa	2009	2013
50	Michel Lemay [7]	2013	Current

Officially, municipal elections in Saint-Barnabé are on a non-partisan basis.

References

1. "Banque de noms de lieux du Québec: Reference number 55708". toponymie.gouv.qc.ca (in French). Commission de toponymie du Québec.
2. "Répertoire des municipalités: Geographic code 51025". www.mamh.gouv.qc.ca (in French). Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation.
3. "Saint-Barnabé, Quebec (Code 2451025) Census Profile". 2011 census. Government of Canada - Statistics Canada.
4. "Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), Quebec". Statistics Canada. February 9, 2022. Retrieved August 29, 2022.
5. Sources: Denis Gélinas, Secrétaire-trésorier; Centenaire de l’église de Saint-Barnabé-Nord 1859-1959
6. De Charette served as Mayor of Charette from 1918 to 1927.
7. Martin Lafrenière, Saint-Barnabé: Bourassa concède la victoire à Lemay, La Presse, November 5, 2013